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natural resource

NOUN
resource from the earth
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The prime minister said the fund will invest - along with the private sector - into what his government has described as "nation-building projects" like port upgrades and natural resource development.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

Beijing is also targeting the lunar South Pole, not least for its rich natural resource potential.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Few states dominate the domestic production of a natural resource like Arizona does copper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

And in 2009, the new constitution even recognized “ancestral coca as cultural patrimony, a renewable natural resource of Bolivia’s biodiversity, and as a factor of social cohesion.”

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2025

I was simply a material, a natural resource to be used.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison